Hong Kong police are pressing their investigation into a phone scam in which a man lost 1.7 million yuan (US$273,741) to swindlers posing as a courier and a policeman. The 40-year-old man, surnamed La ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-22
Fed up with error messages on your computer screen? Fret not. These might save you a fortune. A Hong Kong man is so thankful an error page flagged a fraudulent cash transfer he has probably made it hi ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-09
As the world awaits word of developments in the Greek debt crisis, the country's new finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, has given netizens something with which to occupy their time. In only his seco ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-08
From portable computing devices that give us anytime/anywhere connectivity to smart watches and wearables that capture and quantify our daily lives, technology not only enriches our lives, it changes ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-06
Divers continued searching waters in the central Philippines on Friday for 15 people still missing after a ferry carrying 187 passengers and crew sank a day earlier, killing 38 people, the coast guard ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-03
What's that again? China’s central Henan province, whose per capita GDP is way below the national average, is more competitive than Hong Kong? Well, that's the conclusion of a report by the China Inst ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-25
The pro-establishment lawmakers who walked out of Legco to "wait for Fat Suk" ("King of the New Territories" Lau Wong-fat) eventually failed to cast their vote to "pocket it first", leading to a resou ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-19
A US military facility in Utah mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to private laboratories in nine US states and a US military base in South Korea, the Pentagon said. It said Wednesday there was no ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-28
The relationship between Hong Kong and China has been affected by many factors, but Hongkongers cannot forget how pro-Beijingers caused great damage to our society during the 1960s. They did this by l ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-19
Legislator James Tien Pei-chun is spending HK$250,000 on a large-scale public opinion poll on the government's electoral reform proposal in the hope its findings will encourage pan-democratic lawmaker ...More
EJ Insight2015-05-05
Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s work plan for 2015, revealed at this month’s National People’s Congress, highlighted the country’s shift to a “new normal” of 7 percent economic growth. The shift to slower ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-30
The death of modern Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew on Monday immediately raised the question whether the city state can maintain its fast growth, rule of law and stability without him. Durin ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-25
Equifax Information Services LLC, Experian Information Solutions Inc. and TransUnion LLC, the top three personal credit information data providers in the US, have agreed to a major overhaul in their b ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
On July 4, 1994, Sophie Serrano, then 18 years old, gave birth to her first baby at a private maternity clinic on the French Riviera. The child, whom she named Manon, had to be placed in an incubator ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
The 50-minute suspension Tuesday of Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram was caused by an internal system crash -- not an external attack -- the world's largest social network said. "Earlier this eve ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-27
To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth anniversary on Monday, Chinese internet heavyweight Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed a function that allowed WeChat app users who sent a message with the En ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-20
Ever been lost for words? Try the lexicographers, the guys who keep our dictionaries relevant and current. This year, they have made some words a non-entity in a ranking of the most used, er, word in ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-31
Banksy has struck again -- or so it seems. The notorious Hong Kong graffiti artist and political activist set social media abuzz with his latest social commentary under the Twitter handle #Banksy. Ban ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-11
Hong Kong should reform the city's electricity market and break up the monopoly held by CLP Power and Hongkong Electric, according to a Consumer Council study. "The current structure and regulation in ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
Many of us have been surprised by some of the ill-considered comments made by members of the Hong Kong government and other public figures recently with regard to the protests on the streets.Equally t ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-17
